David Mitchell

Small talk, strangers, sausage rolls: December can be a long haul for the introvert. Lucy Mangan gives us her survivor’s guide and celebrity guests Olivia Colman, Jarvis Cocker, James Corden, Piers Morgan and others reveal their top tips for being the life and soul

Richard Vine: The Peep show duo's show about a pair of hapless British civil servants trapped in the fictional central Asian state of Tazbekistan will not be recommissioned by BBC2 as a comedy. But it could come back in a more serious incarnation

Defiantly untrendy, eternally single, a 'useless loner who eats ready meals in the dark'. This is the David Mitchell we've come to know. But Hadley Freeman finds a very different man: engaged, in love and ready to shout about it